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i also took the time to read a lot of cia books, books by cia insiders but also cia outside journalists encompassing the previous 20 years which i had never read before. believe me after you spend 10 or 12 hours inside of that bubble at langley the last thing you want to do is come home and curl up in read more books about the cia. so i never read any of them. i read those and they are helpful. some are better than others, so that was it. that is how i put my manuscript together. there were a few areas that i will admit to you that i started pushing the envelope. i knew i was coming up to classified line in telling the story and i thought to myself i will see if i can get away with this so i pushed it. then i would submit the manuscript to the cia and dubiously every time i had done that they knocked it out again. they caught all of them. on the other hand there were certain events i talk about, certain stories and the book is really stories that i thought they would pare it down and they left them marginally unscathed. what i was finally able to get to my publisher the cleared manuscri
i also took the time to read a lot of cia books, books by cia insiders but also cia outside journalists encompassing the previous 20 years which i had never read before. believe me after you spend 10 or 12 hours inside of that bubble at langley the last thing you want to do is come home and curl up in read more books about the cia. so i never read any of them. i read those and they are helpful. some are better than others, so that was it. that is how i put my manuscript together. there were a...
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the cia also mislead other cia white house officials. when vice president cheney's counsel asked cia counsel general in 2003 about the cia's videotaping the water boarding of detainees, muller deliberately told him that videotapes, quote, were not being made, end quote, but did not disclose that videotapes of previous water boarding sessions had been made and still existed. source, email from scott muller dated june 7th, 2003. there are many many more examples in the commit tease report. all are documented. the third set notes the various ways in which cia management of the program from its inception to its formal termination in january of '09, was inadequate and deeply flawed. there is no doubt that the detention interrogation program was by any measure a major cia undertaking. it raised significant legal and policy issues, and involves significant resources and funding. it was not, however, managed as a significant cia program. instead it had limited oversight, and lacked formal direction and management. for example, in the six months
the cia also mislead other cia white house officials. when vice president cheney's counsel asked cia counsel general in 2003 about the cia's videotaping the water boarding of detainees, muller deliberately told him that videotapes, quote, were not being made, end quote, but did not disclose that videotapes of previous water boarding sessions had been made and still existed. source, email from scott muller dated june 7th, 2003. there are many many more examples in the commit tease report. all...
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the cia also misled other cia white househi officials. when vice president cheney's cancel cia council general scott mueller in 2003 about cia videotaping, the waterboarding of detainees deliberately toldpe them that videotapes were not being made." but did not disclose videotapes of previous waterboarding sessions had been made and still existed. source e-mail from scottel where muellerdated june 7, 2003. there aren't many, many more examples and the committee's report. all are documented. the third set of findings in conclusion notes the various ways in which cia management of detention and interrogation program from its inception to its formal termination in january of 2009 was in adequate and deeply flawed. there is no doubt the detention and deterioration program was by any major measure a major cia undertaking. at raise significant legal and policy issues and involve significant resources and funding. it was not however managed as a significant cia program. instead it had limited oversight and lacked formal direction and management.
the cia also misled other cia white househi officials. when vice president cheney's cancel cia council general scott mueller in 2003 about cia videotaping, the waterboarding of detainees deliberately toldpe them that videotapes were not being made." but did not disclose videotapes of previous waterboarding sessions had been made and still existed. source e-mail from scottel where muellerdated june 7, 2003. there aren't many, many more examples and the committee's report. all are...
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, old-school cia director. i spent a lot of time with her, right the summer before she was 95 and she was full of terrific untold stories about her husband and she said you know chris, they were all asked to do things they shouldn't have done. and i said like what? and we got into it and we talked about the fact that helms was a flawed character, he was smooth and he was you know, i loved the stories about him holding his own on the dance floor, fred astaire, this 1975 station over the shah of iran. helms was dancing with cynthia and fred astaire was dancing with the shah of iran . quite the character but flawed. he is relationship was always fascinating because he admired lbj for his domestic achievements and the great society, he was exasperated by the vietnam war. but he wanted lbj to succeed and lbj leaned on him very hard as only lbj could do. and told him in no uncertain terms he wanted intelligence showing that domestic protesters against the vietnam war were being controlled by foreign communist powers.
, old-school cia director. i spent a lot of time with her, right the summer before she was 95 and she was full of terrific untold stories about her husband and she said you know chris, they were all asked to do things they shouldn't have done. and i said like what? and we got into it and we talked about the fact that helms was a flawed character, he was smooth and he was you know, i loved the stories about him holding his own on the dance floor, fred astaire, this 1975 station over the shah of...
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with the cia in 1947, the cia becomes central. president truman added the national security agency in president eisenhower added the 1952. national reconnaissance office to coordinate activities regarding imagery from the spy planes and satellites. under kennedy, the defense department gets its own intelligence agency. dia is a major national agency of the intelligence immunity. as we discussed, it does important work in human intelligence and specialized technical intelligence. i got those important developments out of the way and twont to focus on the biggest intelligence subjects of the kennedy administration, which are the two major historical episodes that people remember. the bay of pigs fiasco and the cuban missile crisis. we have a fiasco and a crisis. they are both big problems. what they have in common is cuba. otherwise, they are vastly different problems. the bay of pigs fiasco was a cia covert paramilitary operation, specifically a regime change operation that went very badly. the cuban missile crisis, by contrast, wa
with the cia in 1947, the cia becomes central. president truman added the national security agency in president eisenhower added the 1952. national reconnaissance office to coordinate activities regarding imagery from the spy planes and satellites. under kennedy, the defense department gets its own intelligence agency. dia is a major national agency of the intelligence immunity. as we discussed, it does important work in human intelligence and specialized technical intelligence. i got those...
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the saturday evening post, byget a reporter, brief him the cia, so all this information that the cia wants out that it can't necessarily come out and tell people about, and then sent to those reporters to europe and have them report things the cia is giving them and presenting it as information that has come about through just basic reporting practice. mr. scully: if david hadley had unfettered access to go to the cia headquarters, see everything, talk to anyone, what would you look for? mr. hadley: i would look for any who is thethor -- publisher of the "new york times" for the early period of my project. he is there until the 1960's. and whether or not the cia paid him to cooperate with them. because that is a question that has been debated quite a bit and i would really like to find out about that. mr. scully: how did you go about researching this dissertation? who did you talk to and what was available to you? mr. hadley: well, a lot of things are available in terms of government files from the freedom of information act. the freedom of information act reveals a lot about some co
the saturday evening post, byget a reporter, brief him the cia, so all this information that the cia wants out that it can't necessarily come out and tell people about, and then sent to those reporters to europe and have them report things the cia is giving them and presenting it as information that has come about through just basic reporting practice. mr. scully: if david hadley had unfettered access to go to the cia headquarters, see everything, talk to anyone, what would you look for? mr....
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bush cia director and there was no greater defender of the cia. he loved that job as a think everybody knows. but one of the things that strikes me having gotten know a lot of people out there is that at the end of the day, almost everybody, they are human beings, they have political opinions. there are vast differences between the analysts who tend to be some deprived, geeky, intellectuals who are stuck doing the work on paper, and the covert operatives who are out breaking laws in countries all over the world. but the vast majority of them really are very good at keeping their heads down and trying to do their jobs and produce on his intelligence, and the don't pay a lot of attention to whoever is in the oval office at any given moment or any of the bluster that is coming their way. that may sound pollyanna-ish and a little bit corny, but you do take some hope away from that when you just see how dedicated most of them are. >> so institutional integrity doesn't have to rely on the person on top? >> well it helps, and you know there's a question
bush cia director and there was no greater defender of the cia. he loved that job as a think everybody knows. but one of the things that strikes me having gotten know a lot of people out there is that at the end of the day, almost everybody, they are human beings, they have political opinions. there are vast differences between the analysts who tend to be some deprived, geeky, intellectuals who are stuck doing the work on paper, and the covert operatives who are out breaking laws in countries...
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want to write about the cia. the most basic kind of relationship you have between the press and the agency is that a reporter will go and have lunch with an agent of the cia and he will get some background information that he can use. the cia is often a valuable source of intelligence for reporters. at a certain point, intelligence work and the press are doing the same kind of thing for very different reasons in terms of getting information. so if you're getting a lot of good stuff from the cia, you do not necessarily want to do anything that is going to aggravate them or to close down the source of information. the press wants to keep access. had anw york times" arrangement with the cia in the 60's were every once in a while they would put reporters in the cia and would get briefed 40 background. deepas in -- for background. it was a mutually beneficial relationship. there were reporters that wanted to cooperate. there was joseph alsop, a famous columnist went beyond trading went beyond-- who trading information
want to write about the cia. the most basic kind of relationship you have between the press and the agency is that a reporter will go and have lunch with an agent of the cia and he will get some background information that he can use. the cia is often a valuable source of intelligence for reporters. at a certain point, intelligence work and the press are doing the same kind of thing for very different reasons in terms of getting information. so if you're getting a lot of good stuff from the...
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there the cia is cia is in fact an arm of the executive branch of the government. and if that executive branch says we're going to kill americans we're going to we're going to if the executive branch if the politicians say you we're going to give them kill americans we're going to kill children we're going to put on sanctions that destroy economies . there are plenty of people under need that the executive branch that will carry out those those orders the oversight has also eroded the principle that the cia and any other government operation should in fact be restricted to the laws of its own nation is a is a principle that has to be enforced if it's not enforced if it's overlooked or it's ignored then bad things will happen so it's really a. matter of pressure ok paul you want to jump in there go ahead i mean that this out well let's hope it's going to london. let's try to bring some clarity into this and some responsibility it sounds as though the critique is about american foreign and security policy not about the cia if you don't like what the u.s. government i
there the cia is cia is in fact an arm of the executive branch of the government. and if that executive branch says we're going to kill americans we're going to we're going to if the executive branch if the politicians say you we're going to give them kill americans we're going to kill children we're going to put on sanctions that destroy economies . there are plenty of people under need that the executive branch that will carry out those those orders the oversight has also eroded the principle...
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the cia also misled other cia white house officials. when vice president cheney's council asked cia council general scott muller in 2003 about the cia's videotaping, the waterboarding of detainees, he deliberately told them that videotapes, quote, were not being made. he did not disclose that videotapes of previous waterboarding sessions had been made and still existed. source e-mail from scott muller. there many, many more examples in the committee's report. all are boumted. the third set notes the various ways in which cia management of the program from the inception to the formal termination was inadequate and deeply flawed. there is no doubt that the detention interrogation program was by any measure a major cia undertaking. it raised significant legal and tell us issues and involved significant resources and funding. it was not however managed as a significant cia program. in the custody of the first detainee, the cia had not identified and prepared a suitable detention site. it had not researched effective interrogation techniques
the cia also misled other cia white house officials. when vice president cheney's council asked cia council general scott muller in 2003 about the cia's videotaping, the waterboarding of detainees, he deliberately told them that videotapes, quote, were not being made. he did not disclose that videotapes of previous waterboarding sessions had been made and still existed. source e-mail from scott muller. there many, many more examples in the committee's report. all are boumted. the third set...
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the cia search and begin on the best dictation into cia sent two duties. i have been informed that mr. buckley has referred the matter to the department of justice given the possibility of a criminal violation by cia personnel. let me note because the cia has refused to her the questions in my january 23rd letter the cia inspector general is ongoing, i have limited information about it aptly what the cia did in conducting its search. weeks later, i was also told that after the inspector general reviewed the cia set dvd to the department of justice, excuse me, referred the cia's activity to the department of justice, the acting consul general of the cia filed a crimes report put the department of justice concerning the committee staff action. i have not been provided the specifics that these allegations or been told whether the departments have initiated a criminal investigation based on the allegations that the cia's acting general counsel. as i mentioned before, our staff involved in this matter have the appropriate clearances, handle the sensitive materi
the cia search and begin on the best dictation into cia sent two duties. i have been informed that mr. buckley has referred the matter to the department of justice given the possibility of a criminal violation by cia personnel. let me note because the cia has refused to her the questions in my january 23rd letter the cia inspector general is ongoing, i have limited information about it aptly what the cia did in conducting its search. weeks later, i was also told that after the inspector general...
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how has that impacted the cia? >> it has weakened the cia and the intention was to weaken the cia. you talk about the policy direction and now, to a certain extent, you could argue that the director of the cia, who was the director of central intelligence, war the hats -- wore the two hats, had too much responsibility for one individual. they did not give the cia director any authority, in terms of personnel or budget or testing. when they created the director of national intelligence, he did not get the authority because the pentagon would not allow it. before it could be sworn in, rumsfeld, who was a detroit in -- who was very adroit in terms of understanding -- adroit in terms of understanding and your accuracy -- a bureaucracy. the national intelligence czar got a desk at the new building and rumsfeld had created the undersecretary of defense or intelligence to make sure that all of the responsibilities that dealt with military intelligence stayed with the pentagon. you look at the intelligence community and budget and personnel along to the military. -- belong to the military.
how has that impacted the cia? >> it has weakened the cia and the intention was to weaken the cia. you talk about the policy direction and now, to a certain extent, you could argue that the director of the cia, who was the director of central intelligence, war the hats -- wore the two hats, had too much responsibility for one individual. they did not give the cia director any authority, in terms of personnel or budget or testing. when they created the director of national intelligence, he...
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la cia es quizÁs la más prominente. la percepciones equivocadas sobre la agencia se remontan a los tiempos del 007, james bond. >> [habla en inglÉs] >> ron patrick encabeza las labores de reclutamiento de la agencia. dice que solo 25% de sus funcionarios operan en la clandestinidad. >> en realidad nosotros no reclutamos espÍas, para serte honesto. quizÁs estamos siendo un poco tÉcnicos en esto, pero lo que hacemos es reclutar funcionarios de operaciones, y parte del trabajo de estos es reclutar gente para recabar informaciÓn. >> ¿aquÍ nadie es un espía? >> no, para anda. >> eso dicen, es cosa de la televisiÓn. >> de la televisiÓn, las pelÍculas, de la percepciÓn generalizada de la gente sobre lo que hacemos aquÍ. pero eso no es lo que nosotros hacemos. >> pero hollywood no es el Único que hace este planteamiento. >> yo fui entrenado como un espÍa, en el sentido tradicional de la palabra. yo vivÍ en la clandestinidad, en el extranjero, simulando trabajar en algo que no era tal cosa. y hasta se me asignÓ
la cia es quizÁs la más prominente. la percepciones equivocadas sobre la agencia se remontan a los tiempos del 007, james bond. >> [habla en inglÉs] >> ron patrick encabeza las labores de reclutamiento de la agencia. dice que solo 25% de sus funcionarios operan en la clandestinidad. >> en realidad nosotros no reclutamos espÍas, para serte honesto. quizÁs estamos siendo un poco tÉcnicos en esto, pero lo que hacemos es reclutar funcionarios de operaciones, y parte del...
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so the cia is in a panic. they've got these red-hot videotapes on their hands. >> narrator: this man, jose rodriguez, the cia's top operations officer, knew how dangerous the tapes were and wanted to destroy them. >> jose rodriguez wanted to nip it in the bud. he floats this idea of destroying the tapes so they would never come out, and makes everybody nervous. "whoa, wait a second. could that be construed as a criminal cover-up if you do?" >> narrator: since he'd learned of the tapes, rizzo had told rodriguez not to destroy them. then, disturbing news. >> one of my lawyers in the counterterrorism center sent me a cable from the facility to headquarters, a very short cable that essentially says, "pursuant to headquarters directions, the videotapes have been destroyed." and needless to say, after 25 years at cia, i didn't think too much could flabbergast me, but reading that cable did. >> narrator: jose rodriguez had ordered the destruction of the tapes. on the seventh floor, they made a decision: they would te
so the cia is in a panic. they've got these red-hot videotapes on their hands. >> narrator: this man, jose rodriguez, the cia's top operations officer, knew how dangerous the tapes were and wanted to destroy them. >> jose rodriguez wanted to nip it in the bud. he floats this idea of destroying the tapes so they would never come out, and makes everybody nervous. "whoa, wait a second. could that be construed as a criminal cover-up if you do?" >> narrator: since he'd...
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of the soviets he passes these things to cia and his cia and mi6 case officers. he provides high level soviet policy papers. he even tries to warn the us ahead of time about that the berlin wall is going up but he can't do so in time above all he conveys his impressions that the soviet leadership is not as confident as they appear. they are blustering from a position of weakness and they know it. they worry about provoking the us to war. they know they do not have strategic superiority in nuclear weapons. the national the national intelligence estimates at the time the us national intelligence at the time assessed that the soviets had far fewer nuclear missiles than they were claiming. it was bluster. and then khrushed off backs down on berlin and that seems to confirm pincofsky's intelligence. at the same time pankowsky says kristoff might do something desperate. cia gave pinkovsky the code name hero hit the vast documentary intelligence that he provided was marked the code word ironbark. and then the oral debriefings he gave that was the chickadee intelligence.
of the soviets he passes these things to cia and his cia and mi6 case officers. he provides high level soviet policy papers. he even tries to warn the us ahead of time about that the berlin wall is going up but he can't do so in time above all he conveys his impressions that the soviet leadership is not as confident as they appear. they are blustering from a position of weakness and they know it. they worry about provoking the us to war. they know they do not have strategic superiority in...
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cia. mr. buyer. what's the point of having a music film that isn't open to the public? this is the museum for so many different parts. our agency, it's an operation or museum, meaning that we learn from the lessons of our past. so that we can become better in the future, in our operations. it's also to inform guests, people who come to headquarters, our partners, help them understand our history we've done in the past and also on shows like this, helping the american public understand the role of intelligence in our democracy. well, the cia is about 75 years old right now is just the point of opening up the newly classified parts of this museum. not only is this museum coming online just in time for the 75th anniversary of cia, it is also the 50th anniversary, three of cia museum. on the 25th anniversary of cia, we were asked to, create a museum. not that i was around for that, but that's where the museum started as a way to preserve the agency's history. and so it's a it's a double annive
cia. mr. buyer. what's the point of having a music film that isn't open to the public? this is the museum for so many different parts. our agency, it's an operation or museum, meaning that we learn from the lessons of our past. so that we can become better in the future, in our operations. it's also to inform guests, people who come to headquarters, our partners, help them understand our history we've done in the past and also on shows like this, helping the american public understand the role...
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access to cia documents. >> so the senate is trying to oversee the cia. it's their constitutional responsibility. they're trying to investigate something the cia has done. the cia is messing with the investigation. they took away documents that the senate was looking at. they went into the senate's computers and said, huh-uh, we're taking that. that ended up being really important and led to two things. first of all, it led to public allegations, bombshell allegations that the cia was in effect spying on congress, that they were using spy tactics, the things they're empowered to do as a clandestine agency. they're using those tactics against the united states congress, against the part of the u.s. government that is supposed to oversee them. that's the first consequence of the cia getting caught taking those documents off the senate computers. the second consequence, though, was more spy versus spy style. because the second consequence of the cia getting caught messing with the senate in that way is that senate staffers decided, in response, effectively,
access to cia documents. >> so the senate is trying to oversee the cia. it's their constitutional responsibility. they're trying to investigate something the cia has done. the cia is messing with the investigation. they took away documents that the senate was looking at. they went into the senate's computers and said, huh-uh, we're taking that. that ended up being really important and led to two things. first of all, it led to public allegations, bombshell allegations that the cia was in...
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i was watching this and i knew nothing about the cia and no one in the cia. in those days cia had no visibility at all that it just occurred to me as i'm watching all these tales of cia, adventures, that if the cia didn't have lawyers and i had no idea whether they did or not that occurred to me that they might need some now. so i just applied as a shot in the dark. >> host: or they might need some new ones because there was some wrongdoing. >> guest: yeah and that's a phenomenon. i found this a pattern repeated throughout my career. when the cia would get itself in some sort of a pickle or flap the cry would go out and they would say the cia needs more lawyers so i was actually, didn't know at the time that i was hired in that first wave of new lawyers. >> host: so, believe it or not people still are confused about why the cia is different than any other agency of the u.s. government, so just if you could summarize why do we need as cia and whose control is the cia under? >> of course the cia is a secret intelligence organization and has been in existence si
i was watching this and i knew nothing about the cia and no one in the cia. in those days cia had no visibility at all that it just occurred to me as i'm watching all these tales of cia, adventures, that if the cia didn't have lawyers and i had no idea whether they did or not that occurred to me that they might need some now. so i just applied as a shot in the dark. >> host: or they might need some new ones because there was some wrongdoing. >> guest: yeah and that's a phenomenon. i...
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that individual can be somebody that's an applicant to the cia or the cia has contact with and has recruited or to determine whether someone is accurately reporting. so i was in texas at the time going back to school and came up here to washington, d.c. and when i sat down with the literature, i had to walk through some of my previous issues but then when he asked me a question whether or not i ever belonged to an organization dedicated in the government, i was prepared to say absolutely not but maybe it is my guilt that kicked in because i remembered then when i had the great honor and privilege to vote in a presidential election which was 1976, at that time i was already very much a devout partisan and upset with some of the partisan stuff i saw from both sides of the aisle. i didn't know who i was going to vote for so i decided to go down the list. i saw the name of the candidate for the party so i flipped that lever and when they asked if i was a part of her support any organization, i immediately thought of that vote and i explained i voted for gossypol and it was a protest vote and i d
that individual can be somebody that's an applicant to the cia or the cia has contact with and has recruited or to determine whether someone is accurately reporting. so i was in texas at the time going back to school and came up here to washington, d.c. and when i sat down with the literature, i had to walk through some of my previous issues but then when he asked me a question whether or not i ever belonged to an organization dedicated in the government, i was prepared to say absolutely not...
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but the golden rule of the cia is that the cia never makes mistakes or errors. and so that is excluded from the consideration and they demand the return. evidently breaking into the senate's computers, they are trying to cause vital documents to disappear, printing out a copy of this and transmitting it at the senate and holding it there in the report is being finalized at this point, it's quite clear what the conclusions are going to be and at this point the acting general counsel of the cia goes dash to decide who's going to war against the senate committee and he does so by accusing them of theft and mishandling of classified documents. because they saw this mishandling and they printed it out and transmitted it to the secure document room and the senate. and he decides that he is not only going to publicly air these complaints but file a notification with the u.s. department of justice for busting that they commenced a criminal investigation into the senate staffers for doing this. so we must note that this man who does all the things his name is robert. ..
but the golden rule of the cia is that the cia never makes mistakes or errors. and so that is excluded from the consideration and they demand the return. evidently breaking into the senate's computers, they are trying to cause vital documents to disappear, printing out a copy of this and transmitting it at the senate and holding it there in the report is being finalized at this point, it's quite clear what the conclusions are going to be and at this point the acting general counsel of the cia...
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the hard jobs come to cia. within the intelligence community, cia is the keeper of the human intelligence mission. technical forms of collection are vital. but a good human source is unique and can deliver decisive intelligence on our adversaries' secret, even their intent. cia is also the lead agency for all source intelligence analysis. the assessments drafted by our analysts based on classified and open source information. much of the president's daily brief consists of cia collection and analysis. and very often the president relies on us to act as america's first line of defense. we are first in, collecting intelligence, moving ahead of the military, going where others can't go, and doing things that no one else can. these are the sorts of activities that fall under the heading of covert action. our work requires secrecy and secrecy in turn requires a secr secrecy in term requires the profound degree of trust from the american people. nothing was more important to those of us at cia than our obligation to
the hard jobs come to cia. within the intelligence community, cia is the keeper of the human intelligence mission. technical forms of collection are vital. but a good human source is unique and can deliver decisive intelligence on our adversaries' secret, even their intent. cia is also the lead agency for all source intelligence analysis. the assessments drafted by our analysts based on classified and open source information. much of the president's daily brief consists of cia collection and...
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when he arrived at the cia. went to the so-called bubble, the auditorium of the cia to make his first address the troops and as he was speaking when he came to the end of this is remarks, he took questions and somebody's hand shot up and he said what would you like us to call you? hagan, was famously eloquent and articulate, he was thrown for a minute. he didn't know how to answer. he said whatever makes you comfortable. don't call me general, call me whatever you want to call me and he said in retrospect, that was the most important thing he sa said. there is, the cia calls, something called four-star general disease and what it means is that military people sometimes arrived at the cia certainly directors have arrived on occasion with a very well developed sense of entitlement. used to have 50 people, when he was in afghanistan to cater to his every win. this was a bit of a problem, it was a culture shock. different cultures. when you are a commanding general, you are accustomed to the different way of life, o
when he arrived at the cia. went to the so-called bubble, the auditorium of the cia to make his first address the troops and as he was speaking when he came to the end of this is remarks, he took questions and somebody's hand shot up and he said what would you like us to call you? hagan, was famously eloquent and articulate, he was thrown for a minute. he didn't know how to answer. he said whatever makes you comfortable. don't call me general, call me whatever you want to call me and he said in...
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we understood what the cia was doing. we gave the cia our bipartisan support. we gave the cia funding to carry out its activities." and now listen to what the former director of the cia's national clandestine service told sean hannity back in 2012. >> you personally briefed nancy pelosi. >> i did. >> about enhanced interrogation. >> we briefed her on 4 september 2002 about the interrogation of abu zubaydah. so we went through the techniques that were used on him, including waterboarding. >> and this wasn't just a courtesy call by the cia. u.s. law requires the cia to inform top congressional leaders about covert activities. one of the ranking members notified was west virginia senator jay rockefeller, an outspoken liberal who after the capture of khalid shaikh mohammed in 2003 said we should be "very, very tough with him" and that we have no business not getting that information. "i wouldn't take anything off the table where he's concerned because this is a man who has killed hundreds ólxx hundreds o americans over the last ten years." senator dianne feinstein
we understood what the cia was doing. we gave the cia our bipartisan support. we gave the cia funding to carry out its activities." and now listen to what the former director of the cia's national clandestine service told sean hannity back in 2012. >> you personally briefed nancy pelosi. >> i did. >> about enhanced interrogation. >> we briefed her on 4 september 2002 about the interrogation of abu zubaydah. so we went through the techniques that were used on him,...
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08/14
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sede de la cia. ¿por quÉ? la respuesta es que estaba a cargo de retransmitir toda la informaciÓn directamente de la cia a la casa blanca. el director john brennan no dar declaraciones con frecuencia, pero ahora hablÓ con nosotros cara a cara. dentro de la cia, desde arriba hasta abajo, el sentimiento contra edward snowden parece igual. >> todos los meses recibo un nuevo grupo de reclusos a la agencia. son individuos muy jÓvenes, sobre los 20 aÑos, y se los ve entusiastas y deseosos de velar por la seguridad de este paÍs. me complace ver cÓmo una vez que entienden claramente lo que hizo el sr. snowden concuerdan conmigo y con otros en que fue algo lascivo a nuestra seguridad nacional, no fue algo digno de elogio. >> pero ¿no necesita usted mÁs gente como snowden trabajando para la cia? en otras palabras, gente inteligente, ingeniosa. >> necesitamos gente con capacidad tecnolÓgica y competente, pero tambiÉn gente muy comprometida con nuestra seguridad nacional, que quiera hacerlo, que estÉ
sede de la cia. ¿por quÉ? la respuesta es que estaba a cargo de retransmitir toda la informaciÓn directamente de la cia a la casa blanca. el director john brennan no dar declaraciones con frecuencia, pero ahora hablÓ con nosotros cara a cara. dentro de la cia, desde arriba hasta abajo, el sentimiento contra edward snowden parece igual. >> todos los meses recibo un nuevo grupo de reclusos a la agencia. son individuos muy jÓvenes, sobre los 20 aÑos, y se los ve entusiastas y deseosos...
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Dec 9, 2014
12/14
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second, the cia and cia senior officers have taken the opportunity to explain their views on cia detention and interrogation of operations. they have done this in on-the-record statements in classified committee hearings, written testimony and answer to questions and through the formal response to the committee in june 2013 after reading the study. and, third, the committee had access to and utilized an extensive set of reports of interviews conducted by the cia inspector general and the cia's oral history program. so while we could not conduct new interviews of individuals, we did utilize transcripts or summaries of interviews of those directly engaged in detention and interrogation operations. these interviews occurred at the time the program was operational and covered the exact topics we would have asked about had we conducted interviews ourselves. these interview reports and transcripts included but were not limited to the following: george tenet, director of the cia when the agency took custody and interrogated the majority of detainees, jose rodriguez, director of the cia's countert
second, the cia and cia senior officers have taken the opportunity to explain their views on cia detention and interrogation of operations. they have done this in on-the-record statements in classified committee hearings, written testimony and answer to questions and through the formal response to the committee in june 2013 after reading the study. and, third, the committee had access to and utilized an extensive set of reports of interviews conducted by the cia inspector general and the cia's...
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Dec 17, 2017
12/17
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a division within the cia. angleton had his fingers in many things. >> was hey well-known personality during the years he was active. >> guest: he was not. in fact there are stories that -- pun story i heard -- one man worked for him four years and never knew who was. her was very sec secretive in his ways, even within the cia. >> host: one of the underlying theisms the book is the importance of bureaucratic infighting. that comes up again and again. >> guest: yes, angleton is a master of that. as an administrator, he's i -- in a one-to-one meeting he was intelligent and his presentations were very compelling. he cultivated allen dulles, richmond helms, cia directors, and maintain his position even with criticism from colleague jive you century rife in the cia as survive in the cia at the level andie think about j edgar hoover surprising presidents. did he get close to the president as well or have dirt on people? >> guest: he was like edgar hoover and was -- hoover didn't like the cia at all but came to trust
a division within the cia. angleton had his fingers in many things. >> was hey well-known personality during the years he was active. >> guest: he was not. in fact there are stories that -- pun story i heard -- one man worked for him four years and never knew who was. her was very sec secretive in his ways, even within the cia. >> host: one of the underlying theisms the book is the importance of bureaucratic infighting. that comes up again and again. >> guest: yes,...
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the o.s.s., the cia's precursor. he had gone into private law practice, then in 1949, two years after the cia was established, he joined. he worked abroad in europe. he had been deeply involved in cia operations, cold war related cia operations for 30 years before he came back to washington and was nominated by president richard nixon and, approved, importantly, by the senate and confirmed by the senate to serve as the new cia director in 1973. so, he comes to this position as director while the cia is in a bit of turmoil. there have -- the former director, james sles sing -- schlessinger, had ordered a report, an internal report to be produced and asked cia officers to come forward and report on programs they believe the agency had been involved in, which may have been constitutionally questionable, which may have been, perhaps if not illegal, at least unethical, immoral, improper. and this report, this internal report became known as the cia's family jewel. the family jewels. at the start of the church committee in
the o.s.s., the cia's precursor. he had gone into private law practice, then in 1949, two years after the cia was established, he joined. he worked abroad in europe. he had been deeply involved in cia operations, cold war related cia operations for 30 years before he came back to washington and was nominated by president richard nixon and, approved, importantly, by the senate and confirmed by the senate to serve as the new cia director in 1973. so, he comes to this position as director while...
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here is a forum to remember chile, where he is the cia of the usa, everything went well. we told the plan in detail about this case, the essence is simple, overseas they were afraid of the communists, therefore they helped to come to power, the murderers of the maniac august pinochet. this is also recognized by the americans themselves, that the united states was behind the organization of the coup d'etat in chile today is a proven fact. us security officials have declassified documents on project falbed, cia operations aimed at overthrowing salvador allende among them and directly preparing to seize power by the military junta. and led by general augusta pinochet in september 73 , as well as political and financial support for the new regime, the documents testify on the way to chile were thrown without precedent and financial means. hundreds of dead, thousands, missing, relying on the support of washington, pinochet did everything in chile that he american dollars helped to keep the powerful in business. the country's economy grew and washington was not embarrassed by p
here is a forum to remember chile, where he is the cia of the usa, everything went well. we told the plan in detail about this case, the essence is simple, overseas they were afraid of the communists, therefore they helped to come to power, the murderers of the maniac august pinochet. this is also recognized by the americans themselves, that the united states was behind the organization of the coup d'etat in chile today is a proven fact. us security officials have declassified documents on...
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this is a total breach of trust, the people who oversee the cia and the cia itself. and, again, i totally see david's point about the timing on this. we know what dianne feinstein did this. but i also think it's a moment where we can as a country take a look at what we're doing and our behavior and understand the fear that drove it and what we ought to be doing going forward. >> david? >> i just don't agree that this is an appropriate time. of course we need to be transparent over time. i think there are time and places where you can do that. when you can have a more rational, calmer conversation. but when you're in the middle of a conflict with people who are beheading their hostages and dressing them up as if they're detainees of americans and want to use this against us. i'm not sure i'd want to play into their hands. so many americans are questioning authority coming out of ferguson and all these race issues. i'm not sure this is a time to put another log on that fire. >> all right, guys. we're going to continue this discussion, full analysis. a lot more of the d
this is a total breach of trust, the people who oversee the cia and the cia itself. and, again, i totally see david's point about the timing on this. we know what dianne feinstein did this. but i also think it's a moment where we can as a country take a look at what we're doing and our behavior and understand the fear that drove it and what we ought to be doing going forward. >> david? >> i just don't agree that this is an appropriate time. of course we need to be transparent over...